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Post by Gene Hunt on Jul 13, 2015 11:40:53 GMT
Series 1 Episode 7 - The Placer.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 31, 2015 18:35:48 GMT
TV Times listing
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 31, 2015 19:01:35 GMT
Another one of my favourites, with Jack again undercover and some great music. This episode features Tony Steedman who appeared in The Bigger They Are too a few years later.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 3, 2015 22:30:33 GMT
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Post by Steve Austin on Aug 4, 2015 6:47:25 GMT
Great spot there Arthur. I've noticed that the facemasks worn in Stoppo Driver also appear in Chalk & Cheese. Thrifty lot eh?
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Post by Superclassic on Aug 10, 2015 21:30:17 GMT
I always think 'The Placer' is a really good episode with a poor ending.The 'Jack Regan,this is your life'bit,I never really liked that.Good storyline in this episode,nice totty with Fran,Denny is a nasty piece of work.Decent episode, and a nice tache to boot,Jack!!!
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Post by Tyne Tees Colour on Aug 12, 2015 8:44:33 GMT
Inadvertently, this episode also showed the day-to-day, hand-to-mouth existence within transport firms.
This was well portrayed with Regan's lonely life on the road, and the outburst by the wheelchair-bound transport manager, when he suspected that Regan was deliberately losing the loads.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 3:51:11 GMT
What does Jack mean when he says in this episode he does not want to be made "the onion"? I can only find rhyming slang such as spring onion = bunion. What does jack mean?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 23, 2016 14:37:13 GMT
The writer of The Placer, Trevor Preston, uses a lot of slang in his scripts. Onion is most commonly a slang word for the head, like swede, though it can be used to mean another much more delicate part of the female anatomy I read that 'onionhead' is an old US military insult used to describe a raw recruit ( a freshly shaved head resembling an onion ) who doesn't know the ropes. A 'newbie'. 'Trying to make me the onion', the person who takes the blame, carries the can, etc. The 'fall guy' or scapegoat. That's how I see it anyway.
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Post by Del Boy on Jul 25, 2016 22:57:24 GMT
I think you nailed that Arthur. I see at as Jack saying he doesn't want to be the Mug or the odd one out.
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